Michael Parenti, in his 1996 essay which examines the role of progressive media in the use of the term, " The JFK Assassination II: Conspiracy Phobia On The Left ", states,

From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

It was the modern ' progressive ' Jews who first applied this name to ' old ', ' backward ' Jews as a derogatory term.

Within a few years, this previously obscure term featured regularly in the lexicon of the conservative social and political challenges against curriculum expansion and progressive teaching methods in US high schools and universities.

* Progressive folk music, originally a type of American folk music that pursued a progressive political agenda, in the UK the term became attached to a sub-genre that encourages stylistic or thematic innovation

* Progressive folk music, originally a type of American folk music that pursued a progressive political agenda, in the UK the term became attached to a sub-genre that encourages stylistic or thematic innovation

Since early in progressive rock's history, the term has been used to distinguish more classically influenced progressive rock from the more psychedelic and experimental forms of progressive rock.

During his term, Marshall focused primarily on advancing the progressive agenda.

Harding's only notable reform effort in his first term ( Ohio state offices had terms of two years ) was a progressive bill to revamp the municipal code, which had passed the Senate but was halted by a single member's procedural call to " reconsider ".

In his first term as President, Wilson persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass major progressive reforms.

Many voters considered Thurmond a progressive for much of his term, in large part due to his influence in arresting all those responsible for the lynch mob murder of Willie Earle.

Holt's progressive management of the mill and his leadership of the North Carolina Railroad and the Grange led to a term as governor between 1891 and 1893.

The term used to describe progressive evolution is anagenesis, though this term does not necessarily include the idea of improvement. The objective description of complexity was one of the issues addressed by cybernetics in the 1950s.

Since complex and interacting systems of maintenance and repair comprise the homeodynamic ( old term: homeostasis ) space of a biological system, aging is considered to be a progressive shrinkage of homeodynamic space mainly due to increased molecular heterogeneity.

In term of the pace of change, the Conservatives are, as their name implies, conservative, the Liberals and NDP tend towards the more progressive, and the BQ are radical, favouring Quebec's withdrawal from the Canadian state and society.

The pair were pioneers in the fields of intelligent dance music and the term progressive house was coined to define their style, a fusion of house with dub and reggae.

In American usage the term culture war is used to claim that there is a conflict between those values considered traditionalist or conservative and those considered progressive or liberal.

Space rock is a subgenre of rock music ; the term originally referred to a group of early, mostly British, 1970s progressive and psychedelic rock bands such as Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, characterised by slow, lengthy instrumental passages dominated by electronic organs, synthesizers, experimental guitar work and science fiction or astronomical lyrical themes, though it was later repurposed to refer to a series of late 1980s British alternative rock bands that drew from earlier influences to create a more ambient but still melodic form of pop music.

From the 1960s stadiums began to be used as live music venues, giving rise to the term " stadium rock ", particularly for forms of hard rock and progressive rock.

It is a loose term that generally identifies progressive house or trance house styles ( often instrumental with no words ) that one would imagine being played at a large rave.

The term " trance " was ( and still to this day by many ) used interchangeably with " progressive house " in the early rave years ( 1990 – 1994 ).

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

The term enquetes demographiques, previously used for the supplementary investigations carried out in connection with the administrative censuses, was used for the new investigations.

This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

Engages must be loyal to the concessionaires, and must serve until the term provided in the engagement was ended.

The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

Friday afternoon the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman was reelected for his second consecutive two-year term as general superintendent of Assemblies of God.

Commenting on the earlier stage, the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors ( in a recent report on the question of faculty participation in administrative decision-making ) noted that the term `` teacher-employee '' ( as opposed to, e.g., `` maintenance employee '' ) was a not inapt description.

The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.

or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan was a member of the famous `` Eight '', and of the so-called `` Ash-Can School '', a term he resented.

The term was introduced into optics by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1760 work Photometria.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

The use of the term " battle " in military history has led to its misuse when referring to almost any scale of combat, notably by strategic forces involving hundreds of thousands of troops that may be engaged in either a single battle at one time ( Battle of Leipzig ) or multiple operations ( Battle of Kursk ).

In philosophy, the term critical theory describes the neo-Marxist philosophy of the Frankfurt School, developed in Europe in the 1930s, that engaged the works of intellectuals such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.

They opened trading posts and engaged in the " trade :" – a term which, under the Ancien Régime, means any type of trade ( wheat, pepper ivory …), and not necessarily, or only the slave trade, although this " infamous traffic ", as it was called at the end of the 18th century, was indeed at the heart of a new economic order, controlled by powerful companies in privilege.

There, he met fellow magicians, both amateur and professional, where he engaged in talk about conjuring, and he met an aristocrat by the name of Jules de Rovère, who coined the term " prestidigitation " to describe a major misdirection technique magicians used.

The term dairy farmer is applied to those engaged primarily in milk production, whether from cattle, goats, sheep, or other milk producing animals.

Freedom fighter is another term for those engaged in a struggle to achieve political freedom for themselves or obtain freedom for others.

In the twentieth-century, however, Marxist historians introduced the use of the term " English Revolution " to describe the period of the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period ( 1640 – 1660 ), in which Parliament challenged King Charles I's authority, engaged in civil conflict against his forces, and executed him in 1649.

Since early 2008 Portlaoise has been the Irish base of Self Help Africa, formerly Self Help Development International, the Irish development agency engaged in implementing long term rural development programmes in Sub-Sahara.

In earlier life he had been engaged in secular pursuits, whether civil or military is not clear, though the term he uses, " secularis militia ," might possibly imply the latter.

The U. S. Supreme Court held that " lthough the Fourth Amendment ordinarily requires the degree of probability embodied in the term ' probable cause ,' a lesser degree satisfies the Constitution when the balance of governmental and private interests makes such a standard reasonable ... When an officer has reasonable suspicion that a probationer subject to a search condition is engaged in criminal activity, there is enough likelihood that criminal conduct is occurring that an intrusion on the probationer's significantly diminished privacy interests is reasonable.

Military strategists use the term infrastructure to refer to all building and permanent installations necessary for the support of military forces, whether they are stationed in bases, being deployed or engaged in operations, such as barracks, headquarters, airfields, communications facilities, stores of military equipment, port installations, and maintenance stations.

The term is also used to describe other forms of disintegration, including, for instance, the subdivision of the Internet into separate enclaves, the division of subfields and the creation of new fields from sociology, and the breakdown of cooperative arrangements due to the rise of independent competitive entities engaged in " beggar thy neighbour " bidding wars.

Although the term " Coureurs des Bois " is most strongly associated with those who engaged in the fur trade, the most prominent coureurs des bois gained fame as explorers.

The term “ Coureur des Bois ” is most strongly associated with those who engaged in the fur trade in ways that were considered to be outside of the mainstream.

Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin in hotels, motels, restaurants, theaters, and all other public accommodations engaged in interstate commerce ; exempted private clubs without defining the term " private.

She had actively engaged, on the side of the residents, in the ' Battle of the Bogside ', for which she served a short jail term.

Herring announced in his new Metro newspaper column that he was engaged to marry his long term girlfriend in April 2012.

* Self Help Development International SHDI is an Irish agency engaged in promoting long term sustainable development projects in Africa.

Referring to a minor, the term adjudicated refers to children that are under a court's jurisdiction usually as a result of having engaged in delinquent behavior and not having a legal guardian that could be entrusted with being responsible for him or her.

More importantly, the term change agent or catalyst is synonymous with the notion of a leader who is engaged in leadership-a transformative or effectiveness process-as opposed to management, a more incremental or efficiency based change methodology.

A sociotechnical system is the term usually given to any instantiation of socio and technical elements engaged in goal directed behaviour.

Brown was much less engaged in legislative affairs than his predecessors ; he did not seek to influence the selection of the legislature's leadership, and he left on vacation during one of the two legislative sessions of his term.

In some cultures, the term is used as shorthand to describe a particular social stratum of well educated, mostly salaried workers, who enjoy considerable work autonomy, a comfortable salary, and are commonly engaged in creative and intellectually challenging work.

The term " volunteer " may also be used in reference to a group of part-time or on-call firefighters who may have other occupations when not engaged in occasional firefighting.